The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library is pleased to announce 1918: Death in Vienna, City of Dreams, a new five-part art history lecture series developed by Victoria Martino. In these special lectures, Victoria will commemorate the centennial death anniversaries of four celebrated Viennese artists who rallied to the Secessionist cause under the motto ?To each time its art, and to art its freedom,? heralding the stylistic revolution of the 20th century. She will discuss their lives and works, their influence upon future generations of artists, and their lasting legacy in the development of modernism.
Victoria Martino - Gustav Klimt (1862?1918): Wine, Women & Song - Eroticism and exoticism went hand in hand in the work of this groundbreaking painter and muralist who became one of the founding members and president of the Vienna Secession, thereby ushering in the stylistic eclecticism of the 20th century. ost single-handedly, breaking free from the stranglehold of historicism.
Admission/Cost:
Tuesday , May 29 - 7:30 PM
For more information, please call: (858) 454-5872 or visit: www.ljathenaeum.org
Victoria Martino - Gustav Klimt (1862?1918): Wine, Women & Song - Eroticism and exoticism went hand in hand in the work of this groundbreaking painter and muralist who became one of the founding members and president of the Vienna Secession, thereby ushering in the stylistic eclecticism of the 20th century. ost single-handedly, breaking free from the stranglehold of historicism.
Admission/Cost:
Tuesday , May 29 - 7:30 PM
For more information, please call: (858) 454-5872 or visit: www.ljathenaeum.org
